Derrick Lewis

[-fugazi]

are those wood dash pads? Never seen that before, cool.

Yep. I removed, and I'm leaning towards losing them. Definitely unique, but not really "padded"

 

[Stuckinthe80s]

Welcome! It looks like you're not "...sitting in the waiting room!" trying to decide what to do with the thing. Ok, that was a cheesy reference

Seriously though, welcome!

 

[-fugazi]

Dropped it off this morning. Owner of the blasting place said he had parts from two other LCs on-hand also waiting to get blasted. It stalled on me twice on the way over. Thought I had handled that. Anyway a crappy before pic...

 

[On the RX]

I like the original color better!

 

[LARGEONE]

Welcome! Wallet is open I see. Be ready for all of your money to fall out of it! Worth it.

 

[-fugazi]

I like the original color better!

My original intention was to paint it mustard, then I was thinking bring it back to the original color (Olive I believe). But there are so many cool FJ40 colors my list is getting longer instead of shorter. It is kind of cool though. Unique for sure.

 

[-fugazi]

Welcome! Wallet is open I see. Be ready for all of your money to fall out of it! Worth it.

Thanks man. Yeah. That may be an issue. I set some coin aside for this project. Just hope it doesn't run out before I get the seats done. Ha! That would be cool - newly painted - ripped up seats held together with electric tape.

 

[-fugazi]

My 40 is gone. But this arrived today. My truck is missing the air inlet & hose. Got this from a Mud Member in Steamboat. Think I will drop this off at the master-blaster.

 

[-fugazi]

So I'm working on cleaning up the top for future headliner install. It's kind of like polishing a turd. Here's a pic of before.

 

[-fugazi]

Here's half and half. Gives an idea of the improvement, but still ugly. It will be covered with carpet. The only broken bolts from the tear-down were the top. Never was good an screw/bolt extraction. So I drilled it out. Tapped in the extractor. Tried turning the extractor bit with my Crescent, but it was turning around the end, stripping it out. So I decided to use the drill. Broke right off. Now I need to drill out the extractor and tap. The other couple I'm not going to mess with trying to extract.

 

[-fugazi]

Then there is the fiberglass damage. Here's a pic with some linemans for perspective. I'm thinking these need to be patched. I saw some Bondo Resin fiberglass kit on Amazon. I was thinking about giving that a try. Anyone have experience trying to patch these? Any recommendations?

 

[simps80]

I don’t have firsthand experience with finishing fiberglass...

But Marcos @rover67 82 fj40 refresh thread just below this one starting on post 486 details what he did to patch the sunroof hole and it turned out perfect.

 

[-fugazi]

My project is at a stand still. Any welders nearby that want some side work? It's completely blasted - so it needs to stay inside. It currently resides in my garage and there is no room to work. Option #1 - I can have it towed to someone nearby if they have the room to garage it while they do the welding work. Option #2 - I can have it towed to my shop in Englewood (warehouse in back) and someone can weld it there. Please let me know if anyone is interested. I would love to get this project back on track

 

[MDH33]

Cool project! You're working backwards though. Get all the mechanical stuff done first and drive it a bunch. Then fix rust and paint it. 😉